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EmilPer |
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October 19, 2007 11:41:01pm |
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Re: Internet Archive vs. Google Books |
Google also makes it very hard to use the book.Getting the bibliographic data, for example, or making a list of books that can be imported into a word processor, or making a link (they used to have the OCLC number in the url, now it's hidden in a link in the book details page).
Archive.org is not perfect either: I have not figured yet how to search in the full text. Are they trying to persuade us that's it is better to harvest interesting titles and index them at home?
The French did a good job with Gallica (
http://gallica.bnf.fr) at the beginning (about 1999), but like most things European, after a good start seems to have slowed down, and will probably end in a shouting match with the Germans, the way Galileo and the EUropean search engine ended.
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Cedric Aubel |
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November 26, 2007 02:52:29pm |
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But the most important thing is the speeding up:
Until 2005: ~ 6 000 docs scanned / year
Since 2007: ~ 100 000 docs scanned / year (they will begin show up on Gallica2 on February/March 2008)
More infos (in french) at:
http://www.bnf.fr/pages/catalog/bibliotheque_numerique.htm
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EmilPer |
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November 26, 2007 03:04:45pm |
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Re: Internet Archive vs. Google Books |
100 000 is a lot, but the most encouraging fact was seeing an internationalized interface at gallica2.bnf.fr ... which means it's more about books than about "francophonie ueber alles": I am not American, French or German, and the recent shrillness of the "dialogue" between the bureaucrats/propaganda machines of those three states make me a little queasy.
thank you for pointing me to gallica2
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